GeForce 9500 GS and Radeon HD 3550 - video card comparison
GeForce 9500 GS
Radeon HD 3550
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G96
RV620
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2008
August 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
550 MHz
594 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
47.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
314 million
181 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
40
Power consumption (TDP)
40 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.800
2.376
Memory type
DDR2
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1008 MHz
792 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16.13 GB/s
6.336 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DisplayPort
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A